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Mouse cursor was totally wonky after this Saturday's #Fedora 37 upgrade. Some package bisecting led me to #GTK 3 apparently a discontinued cursor theme, and me having ancient settings in dconf. #regression

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2150495 – 3.24.35 breaks mouse pointer: Unable to load left_ptr from the cursor theme

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Emmanuele Bassi
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Turns out that cursor themes are completely *under*specified, and nobody knows how they should actually work outside of X11 and non-HiDPI displays; and, of course, we inherited this car crash with Wayland. See gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/i… for the latest attempt at trying to make sense of this mess, and what happened next…

New cursor fallback handling is lacking (#5388) · Issues · GNOME / gtk · GitLab

Following up on #5365, there are more...
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Martin Pitt
Martin Pitt
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@ebassi Thanks for the details! No worries, outdated configs are super hard to handle, and I've kept the same $HOME for many years, across Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora; and GNOME, i3, sway. Good time for a round of cleanup 😁
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Garrett LeSage
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@ebassi Cursors have always been such a mess.

I remember the hoops I had to jump through when making Bluecurve decades ago.

We wanted to eventually tackle this with Tango too. (We made the icon spec then, as icons were a huge mess before that, with lots of one-off symlinks and necessary fallbacks. Thankfully, it was basically adopted everywhere for icons.)

The problem with the cursors is that it was tied to legacy X. (Icons were app & toolkit level.)

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